mašiti

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See also: masití

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mews- (“poke, beat”); see Lithuanian mušti (“to hit, strike”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mâʃiti/
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ši‧ti

Verb

mȁšiti pf (Cyrillic spelling ма̏шити)

  1. (reflexive) to reach for, grab (an object, +genitive)

Conjugation

Conjugation of mašiti
Infinitive: mašiti Present verbal adverb: — Past verbal adverb: mȁšīvši Verbal noun: —
Number Singular Plural
Person 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
Verbal forms ja ti on / ona / ono mi vi oni / one / ona
Present mašim mašiš maši mašimo mašite maše
Future Future I mašit ću1
mašiću 		mašit ćeš1
mašićeš 		mašit će1
mašiće 		mašit ćemo1
mašićemo 		mašit ćete1
mašićete 		mašit će1
mašiće
Future II bȕdēm mašio2 bȕdēš mašio2 bȕdē mašio2 bȕdēmo mašili2 bȕdēte mašili2 bȕdū mašili2
Past Perfect mašio sam2 mašio si2 mašio je2 mašili smo2 mašili ste2 mašili su2
Pluperfect3 bȉo sam mašio2 bȉo si mašio2 bȉo je mašio2 bíli smo mašili2 bíli ste mašili2 bíli su mašili2
Aorist maših maši maši mašismo mašiste mašiše
Conditional I mašio bih2 mašio bi2 mašio bi2 mašili bismo2 mašili biste2 mašili bi2
Conditional II4 bȉo bih mašio2 bȉo bi mašio2 bȉo bi mašio2 bíli bismo mašili2 bíli biste mašili2 bíli bi mašili2
Imperative — maši — mašimo mašite —
Active past participle mašio m / mašila f / mašilo n mašili m / mašile f / mašila n
1   Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic.
2   For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively.
3   Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped.

4   Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped.
  *Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “mašiti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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